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Half of world's languages face extinction by century end
The Worldwatch Institute warns that about half to 90 percent of the world’s 6800 languages could vanish this century. Fewer than 2500 speakers per tongue and pressures from dominant languages push dozens toward extinction, with Eyak Udihe and Arikapu at the bleak end.
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